For Waze and Coyote, temporary bans to report police checks disappear from transport law

TRANSPORT – In full growl yellow vests against rising taxes, it is better to keep a low profile. A measure allowing the authorities to prohibit occasionally badistance to driving applications, such as Waze or Coyote, relaying information on the presence of police barrages disappeared from the draft law of orientation of mobilities (LOM), of which AFP was informed Tuesday, November 27.

This measure appeared in Article 24 of the draft bill published in August, and allowed to prohibit operators to rebroadcast messages from their users reporting the presence of police including operating blood alcohol tests. or looking for people abducted or on the run (kidnapping alert, terrorism, arms trafficking …), for a period of three hours to 24 hours.

This provision was part of a package announced by Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on January 9 at an Interdepartmental Council on Road Safety (IRB).

Article 31 of the bill, presented Monday in the Council of Ministers and with a new numbering, takes measures relating to road safety (sanctions against the use of the phone while driving, alcohol immobilizer immobilizer …), but none relate to the reporting of roadside checks.

"It's not abandoned"

"There were ambiguities about the fact that this measure could be used for speed checks, whereas it actually concerns very serious behavior, in particular criminality." In the current context, the government wants a time of additional pedagogy ", told AFP a source close to the file.

"This is not abandoned, but we must take the time to dispel doubts," added this source.

The badociation 40 million motorists hailed "a great victory". "The state understood that banning the ad hoc dissemination of road reports meant not only setting up a gas plant, but also formulating a real declaration of war against road users, already caught in the throat by a astronomical quantity of measures putting them in difficulty on a daily basis and directly impacting their mobility and their purchasing power ", estimated the general delegate of the badociation 40 million motorists.

For ten days, the movement of "yellow vests" protests everywhere in France against rising fuel prices and, more generally, against the government's fiscal policy and the decline in purchasing power.

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